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Nurses and scientists in training. Art school, market, gardens and a woman belly-dancing. Algiers, 1961
Clip 2 from the 1961 film 'De quel amour blessec', which shows images from Algeria through the centuries from the perspective of four writers: Apulece, Saint Augustin, Ibn Khaldoun et Albert Camus. Nurses, all dressed in white listening...
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Sunday, August 25, 1968 Prague citizens opposing the Soviet occupation rename their streets and put up posters and signs of protest.
Part three of Seven Days to Remember Part 2, documenting events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, 1968. Made by valiant Czech filmmakers, who risked their lives to film the defiance in the streets and to get their...
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Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s.
Part 8 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Interesting clip documenting the Famadihana funerary tradition in Madagascar, 1930s. Known as 'the turning of the bones', Malagasy people bring...
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Coffee break at the hospital. Girl decides to study to be a medical technologist and goes to college with her friends, 1954
Part 5 of an educational film about a career in Medical Technologist, Canada 1954. A young lady decides she wants to enter a career as a medical technologist and goes to college with her friends. (acted).
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Bahrain 1960s - pearl hunters dive for oysters in the Persian Gulf.
Clip 3 from French language film about Bahrain in the 1960s. Pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf. Men dive from boat for oysters and pick out the pearls on deck.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 13 - POV from car down Holloway Road, elderly friends playing dominoes
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
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Man plays a vinyl record. Re-enacted scenes on the invention of the phonograph. 1958.
Clip 1 from Au Creux des Sillons. French language film about the history of sound recording made in 1958 with the help of Pathe-Marconi. Shows the process of manufacturing vinyl discs from studio recording to factory. Young woman walks...
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Supersonic Preview part 3 - British Airways Concorde takes off. Interior cockpit with pilots. Interior cabin with passengers being served food. c.1976
Clip from a documentary on the Concorde plane, showing us how wonderfully useful, fast and liable it is. This film predicts the beginning of a supersonic age. Probably 1976, when the Concorde entered service as a commercial airliner....
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Living at Thamesmead, 1973, part 8 - Child's trip to the dentist
Clip 8 from the 1973 film Living at Thamesmead, a semi-fictional account of a couple who live in the Thamesmead estate, created by the Greater London Council to promote the estate. In this clip, a young couple come across a child eating...
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Messengers, congressional meeting, and battle. USA, 1960s
Clip 5 from the 1960s black and white documentary. 'Towards Freedom' (French: Vers la liberte). Messengers distribute letters amongst the settlers. Military and strategic congressional meetings regarding the rule of the newly found...
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Madagascar c.1958 - Traditional music and dancing.
Clip 17 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. Traditional music and dancing. Air France plane leaves.
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Establishing shots of Paris and its colleges and universities, 1951
Clip 1 from the 1951 French film 'Le Lycee Sur La Colline', following a student of the 1950s from his entry at Lycee Henri IV (Paris) to his final graduation. Ancient map of Paris. Aerial shot of central Paris (Ile Saint-Louis). Eiffel...
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Basque beret and chistera production. Basque Country, c.1930s
Clip 7 from the documentary Zazpiak Bat about the Basque Country. Scenes from a production line of Basque berets, espadrille shoes and chistera racquets. Shots from inside a Basque home. An animated map of the Basque Country and end...
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Madagascar c.1958 - The harvesting and production of vanilla.
Clip 16 from a French Language film, "Plein Ciel Malgache" about the Malagasy Republic (now known as Madagascar) which was formed in 1958. The harvesting and production of vanilla.
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Locomotives in town. France, 1950
Clip 13 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of locomotives moving through the railways around town.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 5 - bungalow homes for the elderly
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council since 1965 in slum clearance and building and its...
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Nixon in France, 1969
Clip 9 from the 'The First Step: President Nixon's European Visit', a film produced by the United States Information Agency in 1969, covering Richard Nixon's European visits and meetings. In this clip, Nixon is seen getting off a plane...
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 3 - shots of houses in disrepair, kids playing on street in working class neighbourhood, demolition of old houses
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council in slum clearance and building and its plans in the...
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Tibetan uprising in 1959 - refugees and combat. Tibetans flee to India and Nepal where they set up a new community.
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Tibet. Buddhist temples. Communists seize Tibet, fighting, Tibetan refugees, Tibetans in India and Nepal. Burning houses, fights in Asian countries.
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Belgians crossing the border to work. France, 1950
Clip 8 from 'Les gens du Nord' (People of the North), a black and white documentary about mining towns in the North of France. Footage of Belgians crossing the border to work.
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Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
Part 1 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas : De Madagascar - Tombouctou / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Sacred tribal dance. Sorcerer dances to the snake. Madagascar 1930s.
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Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 12 - elderly people in a care home, or special accommodation
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
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Family riding a bike, Lahore
Family of four, plus an infant, 'pillion riding' a motorbike on the streets of Lahore
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Czechoslovakia 1968 - Peaceful protests in Prague, and radio announcement regarding liberation
Clip 9 from the 1968 film "Seven Days to Remember", a chronology of the events which followed the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968 by troops from the Warsaw Pact. In this clip, peaceful protesters congregate around the...